The phrase 'favour doing' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used when you are discussing a preference or in situations where you need to make a choice between two options. For example, "I tend to favour doing the washing up over the vacuuming."
You would make the case, presumably, for nature's cure?" Milton Friedman: "Some of my friends in the Austrian school of economics would certainly favour doing nothing in the hope of a cleansing of the system, but I wouldn't.
Neither the SZDSZ nor the MSZP want that to happen, and so both have an incentive to back the new prime minister although the MSZP will favour doing the bare minimum, and its understanding of that term may differ markedly from Mr Bajnai's.
His Treasury Department, for example, has so far refused to label China a currency manipulator even though both congressional and public sentiment currently favour doing so.Last week, however, the Bush administration said it was slapping anti-subsidy policies on Chinese paper products, even though for two decades America has avoided placing such penalties on products from non-market economies.
How far America decides to go may become clearer after the G8 conference in Northern Ireland on June 17th and 18th, where Mr Obama will talk to Britain and France, who favour doing more to help the rebels, and Russia which stands by Mr Assad.
Will you find a way of making it available to the press or to those who favour doing so, appending a few comments, yes or no?
("I suppose that says something in my favour, doesn't it? Or maybe not").
Activists gripe that the restructuring is tipped unfairly in the banks' favour, does little to lighten Eurotunnel's crippling debt burden, and is anyway absurdly complicated.
"So do us and yourselves a favour, don't pick up a Penguin and don't shop at WH Smith until they see sense".
If you listen attentively to your date and ask them pertinent questions but they don't return the favour, don't see them again.
Only when the score was 2-0, with Lille pressing for the goal that would have turned the tie in their favour, did any nerves creep in.
Certainly, many have come across a gentler version of this, something more like whitemail – a favour done rather than a threat made.
